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Thursday 11 april 2019

Angels beat Brewers 11-8 after Trout leaves with injury

By The Associated Press out eight.
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Leonys Martín, Brad Miller,
Tommy La Stella homered Roberto Perez and Jake
twice and drove in four Bauers all entered with sub-
runs, and the Los Angeles .200 batting averages be-
Angels beat the Milwaukee fore hitting their first homers
Brewers 11-8 on Tuesday of the season. Cleveland
after Mike Trout departed had hit a total of only four
with a groin injury. home runs this year before
Los Angeles extended its connecting at Comerica
win streak to five games. Park.
Jonathan Lucroy had two Detroit’s Jordan Zimmer-
hits and three RBIs against mann (0-1) gave up five
his first major league team. runs and was chased in the
Trout left in the fourth inning fifth inning.
after he strained his right ATHLETICS 13, ORIOLES 2
groin while sliding into sec- BALTIMORE (AP) — Jurick-
ond base in the second. son Profar got four hits and
The Angels say their $426.5 drove in a career-high five
million center fielder is day runs, helping Oakland stop
to day. a four-game slide.
Cam Bedrosian (1-0) Slumping Orioles slugger
pitched a scoreless inning Chris Davis didn’t play, a
for the win and Cody Allen Los Angeles Angels’ Tommy La Stella watches his home run during the fourth inning of the team’s day after he set the major
got three outs for his third baseball game against the Milwaukee Brewers, Tuesday, April 9, 2019, in Anaheim, Calif. league record for the lon-
save. Associated Press gest hitless streak by a posi-
Yasmani Grandal homered Toronto’s Charlie Montoyo ley that tied it at 3. Chad led off the bottom of the tion player at 0 for 49.
twice and drove in three topping Boston’s Alex Cora. Green (0-2) retired Carlos first with an opposite-field Profar and Marcus Semien
runs for Milwaukee. Alex Toronto ended a four- Correa to end the inning. triple to stretch a streak homered as the A’s won on
Wilson (1-1) got the loss. game losing streak. Freddy But the Astros, who rallied to that began last Sept. 10 the road for the first time in
BLUE JAYS 7, RED SOX 5 Galvis drove in two runs beat Oakland on Sunday and included the final 20 five tries this season. Center
BOSTON (AP) — Chris Sale to back Matt Shoemaker and New York in Monday’s games of the season. fielder Ramón Laureano
let a Toronto runner steal (3-0), who allowed two series opener, got another Marco Gonzales (4-0) gave threw out another runner,
home, Mookie Betts fanned earned runs in 5 2/3 innings. clutch hit from Springer in up two earned runs in six- and Brett Anderson (3-0)
with two on for the final out Sale (0-3) surrendered five the eighth. plus innings. Anthony Swar- won his third straight start.
and the Red Sox stumbled runs and seven hits before Héctor Rondón (1-0) got zak pitched the ninth for his Trey Mancini singled in the
again, losing to the Blue being pulled after four in- the win and Roberto Osu- second save in two oppor- first and has reached safely
Jays in their home opener. nings. na fanned one in a perfect tunities. in all 11 games for the Ori-
After receiving their World ASTROS 6, YANKEES 3 ninth for his fourth save. Kansas City’s Jakob Junis oles, who have dropped
Series rings, the Red Sox fell HOUSTON (AP) — José Al- MARINERS 6, ROYALS 3 (1-1) allowed four runs in five of their last six. John
to 3-9. A return to Fenway tuve hit his 100th homer and KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — four innings. Means (1-1) got the loss.
Park failed to shake the dol- George Springer’s two-run Dee Gordon got three hits INDIANS 8, TIGERS 2 RAYS 10, WHITE SOX 5
drums that plagued Boston double in the eighth inning and drove in two runs as DETROIT (AP) — Corey Klu- CHICAGO (AP) — Austin
during a season-opening helped the Astros to their high-scoring Seattle ex- ber earned his first win of Meadows homered and
trip to Seattle, Oakland third straight comeback tended baseball’s best re- the season in his third start, set a career high with four
and Arizona. win. cord. powered by four Cleve- hits, powering Tampa Bay
Red Sox sparkplug Dustin Houston has won five in a The Mariners improved to land home runs. to the win.
Pedroia went 1 for 4 in his row overall to improve to 11-2 and have scored at The Indians won their fifth The Rays pounded Ervin
first major league game 7-5. least five runs in 12 of those straight game. Detroit had Santana (0-1) and im-
since May. He played only The Astros trailed by one games. The Royals lost their won five in a row. proved to 9-3, their best
three times last year while when Alex Bregman dou- eighth in a row. Kluber (1-2) allowed one start in nine years. They also
slowed by a knee injury. bled off Jonathan Holder Whit Merrifield extended his earned run over six innings. extended a club record
It was the first big league with two out in the seventh hitting streak to 30 games, A two-time Cy Young by clinching their fourth
matchup of managers inning and scored on a tying a Royals record set Award winner who went straight series victory to
born in Puerto Rico, with double by Michael Brant- by George Brett in 1980. He 20-7 last season, he struck start a season.q

Experiments with robot umps, longer mound distance delayed

NEW YORK (AP) — Robot umpires No date for the start was an- evaluate check swings. be fully installed and calibrated
will get some more warmup time. nounced. A second test also was pushed prior to implementation of these
Major League Baseball and the Plate umpires will wear earpiec- back: extending the distance experimental playing rules,” MLB
Atlantic League said Wednesday es and be informed of ball and between the pitching rubber and the Atlanta League said in a
the experiment with radar-track- strike calls by a TrackMan com- and home plate by 2 feet to 62½ joint statement.
ing technology to call balls and puter system that uses Doppler feet. Originally scheduled to start Atlantic League teams are in
strikes will not be used when the radar. after this year’s All-Star break, the Bridgewater, New Jersey; Central
independent minor league starts Umps will have the ability to over- distance change was put off until Islip, New York; High Point, North
play on April 25. ride the computer, which consid- the second half of 2020. Carolina; Lancaster, Pennsylva-
Instead, the technology “will be ers a pitch a strike when the ball “These changes reflect a joint de- nia; New Britain, Connecticut;
implemented gradually over bounces and then crosses the sire that the upcoming technol- Sugar Land, Texas; Waldorf, Mary-
the course of the 2019 season.” zone. TrackMan also does not ogy upgrades at ALPB ballparks land; and York, Pennsylvania.q